01The former car park has been landscaped and turned into an outdoor dining area

02All terraces are furnished with Grythyttan furniture

03Meeting room, with Santa & Cole lighting, seen from the balcony

04The ground floor kitchen, dining and event space has an oak parquet floor by Bauwerk, an industrial kitchen designed by Andreas Martin-Löf and built by Blumer Schreinerei. Tables and benches were custom-made by Novex and barstools are by Another Country

05Monocle’s meeting room has sofas by Erik Jørgensen, cushions by Johanna Gullichsen, side tables by Muji, stools by Artek upholstered with Johanna Gullichsen fabric, a coffee table by Another Country and pendant lights by Santa & Cole

06The Monocle office has oak-topped desks and shelving by Novex, Tolomeo task lamps by Artemide and carpets by Tisca Tiara. Panasonic televisions keep staff updated with breaking news. Walls of original windows on both sides of the office provide plenty of daylight and a through draft when open

16The chairman’s meeting and reception room on the top floor has a teak table and oak chair set by Norwegian Torbjørn Afdal for Bruksbo. Designed in 1958, the set came from vintage dealers Peppe Trulsen and Einar Kleppe Holthe of Fuglen in Oslo

17Objects on display in the editor-in-chief’s office

18The editor-in-chief’s office has Vitsoe shelving, a Soft Pad chair from Vitra and an oak and bronze desk by BassamFellows

Subscribers and even occasional readers of Monocle will be aware that recently we took up residence in new headquarters. In the four-plus years since launch, Monocle, together with our sister company Winkreative, had grown exponentially in scale of operations and bums on seats. By mid-2010 coming to work at our beloved first home, a compact two-storey space on London’s Boston Place, was like a game of sardines. The cosiness we’d always prided ourselves on was close to becoming cramped.

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